Who needs a laser printer when you can have a tanning printer!
Replacing ink cartridges can be both troublesome and costly. Nowadays you can even find a printer that costs less money than its ink cartridges. Optimistic about the future of printers, designers Hosung Jung, Junsang Kim, Seungin Lee and Yonggu Do have created the Tanning Printer concept. Yes, it's exactly what it sounds like.
The tanning printer is a solar powered printer device that ditches conventional ink cartridges and uses the sun's energy to 'tan' your paper. As strange as it sounds, similar devices known as thermal printers have actually been around for quite some time. Current technology exists for thermal printing using special thermo-sensitive paper, but none of these devices harness the power of the sun to do so.The Tanning Printer uses a magnifying-like system that somehow 'tans' paper in order to create black and white printed pages. We're a bit skeptical as to how this printer will work indoors during the night, but the concept is definitely interesting. Ink cartridges can be quite wasteful and any idea that gets rid of those is worth exploring.
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